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Re:Moore’s Law Not Dead – Intel’s Use of HPC to Keep It Alive by hodwik on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:59AM (#10887739)
You save a good amount of money though. Most of the high-end sub-$100 CPUs in the PassMark CPU benchmarks are AMD chips.

I just picked up the AMD Vishera -- 4.2 Ghz, easily overclockable to 4.5 with a proper cooling system, for $90.

For comparison, an Intel Core i3 4350 at 3.6 Ghz runs $205.

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